Funny you should mention DSLs:

let myQuery = sql """
        SELECT id, name, date
        FROM MyTable
        WHERE id > 100
        """

let myLayout = NSLayoutConstraint """
        ...
        """

let myPredicate = NSPredicate ""
        ...
        """

> On Jun 15, 2017, at 2:05 PM, David Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Personally, I have never felt that need.
> 
> Trailing closures fill of need of making Swift a good candidate for building 
> DSLs, where they make the function calls look more like first-class 
> operations. But I don’t think that trailing strings would be as useful.
> 
> David.
> 
>> On 15 Jun 2017, at 11:54, Gor Gyolchanyan via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Good day, swift evolution community!
>> 
>> I'll just get right to it...
>> 
>> Did anyone else beside me wished this was a thing?
>> 
>> func parse(allowSomeBehavior: Bool = true, source: String) {
>>      // ...
>> }
>> 
>> parse(allowSomeBehavior: false) """
>>      This is a source string
>>      that contains a number of lines of text
>>      which is passed to the function `parse`
>>      """
>> 
>> parse """
>>      The exact same thing as above
>>      except no other parameters are specified
>>      """
>> 
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